by millionairemind » Fri May 22, 2009 5:08 pm
May 22, 2009, 2:28 a.m. EST
GM to file for bankruptcy as early as next week, report says
By MarketWatch
LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The Obama administration is preparing to send General Motors Corp. into bankruptcy as early as the end of next week under a plan that would give the automaker tens of billions of dollars more in public financing, the Washington Post reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the discussions.
Under the draft bankruptcy plan for GM /quotes/comstock/13*!gm/quotes/nls/gm (GM 1.92, +0.47, +32.41%) , the company would receive just short of $30 billion in additional federal loans, the report said, but added that the figure is a starting point in negotiations and could change.
A bankruptcy filing would come in spite of a breakthrough deal between GM, the United Auto Workers union and the U.S. Treasury that would pave the way for lower labor and health-care costs at the struggling automaker. See story on GM labor deal.
Such a move would also leave Ford Motor Co. /quotes/comstock/13*!f/quotes/nls/f (F 5.33, -0.08, -1.48%) as the only of the three major U.S. auto makers to have avoided a bankruptcy filing in the current global economic downturn.
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